Christophe Demaître (Belgium 1968) is an image hunter. He masters a wide range of different media such as fresco painting, charcoal drawing, engraving on zinc and photography. While living and working in Shanghai, Sao Paolo and Brussels, he incorporated the graphical elegance of Asia, the temperament that is South-America and the great European art history. His travels profoundly influenced his creativity. In Indonesia he was confronted with the primitive culture of the Mentawais. Their image culture inspired him in the search for his drawing style. The Arte Povera, which he discovered in Barcelona, influenced his way of combining materials. His residency in Italy has granted him to discover the use of pigments and to experiment with different techniques of fresco painting. The metropol of Shanghai allowed him to realize work on a bigger scale and the collaboration with Island6 inspired him to integrate technology such as LED displays and microchips into his work.
The artist currently exhibits on a regular basis in international art shows and different galleries such as Palazo Correr Venice, ARTantide, Verona and Mac-Metissatge in Barcelona. His work is part of public and private collections all over Europe and Asia. In July 2007, Christophe Demaître's work became part of the Deutsche Bank Collection, the world's biggest and most notorious corporate collection, which today constitutes 50,000 works of art.